GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 581598
low battery event triggered even when connected to ac
Last modified: 2012-03-23 09:50:24 UTC
Please describe the problem: Gnome power manager does not respect ac connected state, and always trigger low battery event, if battery level is cirtical. If you wake up from sleep, and your low battery policy is to go sleep if battery low, gnome power manager always sleeps the machine after wake up while battery level is critical. Steps to reproduce: 1. left battery to discharge 2. connect to ac when battery level is critical Actual results: low battery event repeatedly triggered while charge level below critical Expected results: do not trigger low battery event if conneceted to ac Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
Confirmed by a Mandriva user with gnome-power-manager 2.26.1 and devicekit-power 006
I've been facing that bug in the following use case: Plug battery to laptop Plug AC to laptop Power on laptop Battery is charging When battery is charged, remove it Plug a discharged battery (0%) to charge it System is powered off. That's a pretty annoying bug when you want to charge many batteries
This bug seems to be present in gnome-power-manager 2.26.2. It happened to me when I did following steps: 1. discharge the battery completely, 2. connect AC adapter, 3. boot Linux and login to Gnome.